Many of the innovations for successful control have resulted from the work of Agricultural Research Service scientists, such as the discovery in 1936 that selenium is absorbed by plant roots and carried to foliage where it kills aphids, which became the first systemic insecticide; finding genetic resistance to corn earworm in a line of flour corn in 1941; and developing the sterile male insect release technique that led to the eradication of the screwworm from the United States in 1966, a method that is being used today to keep this and other pests like the Mediterranean fruit fly out of the country.

POWERCORE will reportedly provide increased corn yield between 5% and 10% with the control of major corn pests, including Fall armyworm, Sugarcane borer, Corn earworm, Corn stalk borer and Black cutworm and tolerance to two types of herbicides - glyphosate and glufosinate.

According to Monsanto, the technology's 5% blended refuge, the lowest in the corn growing area, means farmers can protect more of their acres with two modes of action for controlling corn rootworm and corn earworm.

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